Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...
...dramatics at the State Junior College, wears gloves to keep his hands from sunburn, and composes operas. With little hope he submitted his latest effort to the Metropolitan. It was called The Eunuch. Henry Chester Tracy, a Los Angeles author, had written the libretto from a short story by Harrison Griswold Dwight (Stamboul Nights...
...were Postmaster General Farley's last week. One morning he drove to his office on Pennsylvania Avenue near 12th Street. Instead of stopping as usual at the old Post Office Department Building, that blackened square of granite with cone-capped towers, one of the finest examples of Benjamin Harrison architecture in Washington, his car kept on across 12th Street and came to a stop before a new building with classic white marble columns. "General" Farley was moving into the new $8,500,000 home of his Department. A fair home it was, not so ostentatious...
...Benjamin Harrison's time the Department of Interior began to allot farms to the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. To Jackson Barnett, for his very own, went 160 acres in eastern Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth...
William Edward Harrison 2G., of Roxbury, Mass., has won the Dante Prize of $25 for the best essay by a student in any department of the University or by a graduate of not more than three years' standing, on a subject drawn from the life of Dante. His essay was entitled, "Dante's Mantle, the Meaning of Dante in Our Time...